Draw Spline With Perl and Visio

[JoeGilligan]

Hi. I am trying to run a Visio macro from Perl using the Win32::OLE library. For my program I need to draw a spline. The argument it requires to create this must be an xyarray.

the VBA command to make this is...

ThisDocument.DrawSpline(xyarray, Tolerance, Flag)

I know the VBA array is different than a perl array so I havn't been able to send it directly. I also read online that you just had to pass the array byref and the OLE library would handle it...I think it would look like this.

$VPage->DrawSpline(\@array, "0", $H8);
 

That didn't work for me. I also read something about using a VT_ARRAY, but i'm not exactly sure how that would work. I'd appriciate your help!

Joe

[numberwhun]

Hi. I am trying to run a Visio macro from Perl using the Win32::OLE library. For my program I need to draw a spline. The argument it requires to create this must be an xyarray.

the VBA command to make this is...

ThisDocument.DrawSpline(xyarray, Tolerance, Flag)

I know the VBA array is different than a perl array so I havn't been able to send it directly. I also read online that you just had to pass the array byref and the OLE library would handle it...I think it would look like this.

$VPage->DrawSpline(\@array, "0", $H8);
 

That didn't work for me. I also read something about using a VT_ARRAY, but i'm not exactly sure how that would work. I'd appriciate your help!

Joe

Welcome to TSDN, Joe!!! We are pleased that you decided to join our humble forum.

I have editied your post for code tags. Please be sure an add them whenever you post code in the forum. As for your question, I have not had any experience with that, but certainly hope that one of our experts can assist you!.

Again, welcome!

Regards,

Jeff

[eWish]

That didn't work for me. I also read something about using a VT_ARRAY, but i'm not exactly sure how that would work. I'd appriciate your help!

Hope this will help you. Win32::OLE::Variant

--Kevin

[JoeGilligan]

Hope this will help you. Win32::OLE::Variant

--Kevin

Thanks Kevin,
That helped, but I still have a question. I saw the section on how to make a 2 dimensional array, but I'm having trouble understanding the syntax. Do you know how to go about creating a one-dimensional safearray as opposed to the 2 dimensional?